ID(1) | User Commands | ID(1) |
NAME¶
id - print real and effective user and group IDs
SYNOPSIS¶
id [OPTION]... [USER]
DESCRIPTION¶
Print user and group information for the specified USER, or (when USER omitted) for the current user.
- -a
- ignore, for compatibility with other versions
- -Z, --context
- print only the security context of the current user
- -g, --group
- print only the effective group ID
- -G, --groups
- print all group IDs
- -n, --name
- print a name instead of a number, for -ugG
- -r, --real
- print the real ID instead of the effective ID, with -ugG
- -u, --user
- print only the effective user ID
- -z, --zero
- delimit entries with NUL characters, not whitespace;
- not permitted in default format
Without any OPTION, print some useful set of identified information.
GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report id translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
AUTHOR¶
Written by Arnold Robbins and David MacKenzie.
COPYRIGHT¶
Copyright © 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License
GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO
WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO¶
The full documentation for id is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and id programs are properly installed at your site, the command
- info coreutils 'id invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.
November 2020 | GNU coreutils 8.22 |